Relic Detail Delicious Ulthwe DLC Pack

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Ooh, I missed this last week, but PCG posted a helpful link: there’s going to be an Ulthwe Eldar DLC for Dawn Of War 2, and Relic have been busy showing off some of the models for it. I am seldom a sucker for such things, but I must admit (and don’t tell anyone else about this) to having a huge Ulthwe army of actual miniatures. Yes, the spooky space elves are to me as skaven are to Gillen. I’m sorry, but it’s true. And that means I’m going to have to have this DLC, too. Collector impulse decides for me. And, well, a man has to have some dubious pleasures if life is going to be interesting. We can’t all smoke crack.

This is about the only pack of this sort I actually might consider, as the Ulthwe are easily my favorite 40K faction (though oddly the Eldar aren’t my favorite 40K army, that’d be the Imperial Guard). Still, a purely cosmetic DLC is worth very little IMO, they might get $1 or less out of me during a Steam sale.

There is a race known as the Hrud. They were briefly mentioned in some source material as a dangerous race in the Universe, along with Kroot and Necrons I think (before they had been introduced properly and fully). There were some similarities between them and Skaven, and, although Games Workshop themselves haven’t published anything about them, there has been a lot of fan made material using the Hrud as ‘Skaven in Space’.

But, I think Games Workshop tried to move 40K away from Warhammer Fantasy, so I don’t think they’d introduce them now, or any time, as an equivalent race to the Skaven.

I’d gleefully slop this up myself if it actually worked outside of multiplayer. I’m not exactly thrilled with the idea of playing DoW2’s painstaking online mode again. It could at least work in Last Stand mode, but no such luck.

Sorry, reflex. This does seem a bit pricey, but, well, GW’s business model is predicated on offering customization at inflated prices… Jim didn’t actually say he wasn’t going to buy this, after all. Just that a little crack might make the decision easier :)

Both this and the dark angels skins look great, but I don’t think I can justify spending that much on DLC without real content, outside of games like TF2 with it’s many free updates or LoL with its F2Pness where I feel the developer has earned more of my money.

I can’t for a single moment envision paying $1 for new skins for in-game armies I’m viewing from a sizeable zoom for the most part and which have differences only discernable to the hardcore tabletop miniatures crowd; much less $7.50 each. Still, if they can fund development of new, meaningful content for DOWII and/or further 40K games (that are good) from the sucker…I mean, loyal customers that do go in for this sort of thing, more power to them.

Some of TF2’s hats go up to £7.99 and you can’t even see them yourself, it allows you to change the name of a weapon for £3,49 and gifting an item to someone else costs £1,29, so £5 for a reskin of a dozen units doesn’t sound like that much by comparison. I think it’s rather clever, actually, a lot of people are very attached to their WH40k factions, but it’s unreasonable to expect every one of them to be included in the game. Sounds like the kind of stuff DLC is invented for.

A bit, yes, but what I’d really like to pay for is a proper army painter. What’s really disturbing is that I barely noticed “really like to pay for” used to be “really wish they’d patch in” with DoW 1…

I got a decent size Ulthwe Army in actual miniatures- gonna sell it tho, dont find the time to paint or play much, anymore.
Oh yeah and this: never smoke a drug which is named after a part of your arse.